Daniel Fandino

"In my restless dreams I hear that music." Akira Yamaoka at the Orlando Hard Rock Live taking us back to Silent Hill. Also featured: the most Silent Hill cosplayers I've ever seen in one place.

Streaming services need new ways to grab audience attention. Either way, ridiculously entertaining watching the theory play out so quickly in real time.

However, if the episode itself is wrapped within a real world moment, a hyperreal blurring of fandom and sensationalism, theater and reality, than the finale only needs to exist as the conversation will be about the cultural moment of shock, and that is how it will be remembered.

The speed at which the theory took hold is a factor that is very interesting to me. It might mark a new chapter in the idea of streaming television. Final episodes simply do not live up to inflated viewer expectation.

I have not been so entertained by the internet in years, and if #conformitygate is real it would be one of the greatest television surprises of all time regardless of the actual content of the episode. Odds are infinitesimally low...but not zero.

Buck Rogers surrounded by swirling lights, with the caption "2026"

BUCK ROGERS: CURRENT STATUS

I'm just like, wow Turlough.

Absolute cinema.

UCF Libraries Welcomes Digital Exploration Center Librarian - UCF Libraries The University of Central Florida (UCF) Libraries is pleased to announce the appointment of Daniel Fandino as the new Digital Exploration Center (DEC) Librarian. Daniel brings over seven years of expe...

Thrilled to begin a new role directing the UCF Libraries' new Digital Exploration Center!

One of those cat days.

Happy Federation Day! On 12 August 2161, representatives from Earth, Andor, Tellar, and Vulcan sign the Articles of Federation, founding the United Federation of Planets.

Current mood.

Witch Watch episode 14 certainly committed to the bit.

I had a busy weekend Marvel. Could we have held off on the Thunderbolts reveal spoiler just a little longer?

Gold colored sign for the city of Shizuoka in the form of a life sized model kit sprue of samurai armor

Shizuoka is home to much of Japan's model kit industry, hence the slogan, "A Model City." Large sculptures like this dot the city.

A black and white cat on a chair wearing pink bunny ears.

Best 300¥ I spent in gatcha machines this time around.

Himeji Castle among the cherry blossoms.

centerNet Keynote presentation: Minimal lab/Maximal labor, Gimena del Rio Riande

First keynote of the Global DH Symposium 2025!

Minimal Lab / Maximal Labor
🗣️ Gimena del Rio Riande @gimenadelr.bsky.social
🎙️ Moderator: Kristen Mapes

“Everything must change if we want to stay the same.”

#GlobalDH #DigitalHumanities #DH2025

Final day at #OAH2025!

We have free totes, pens, notebooks and stickers!

We’ve had great chats about how H-Net can help during these hard times for scholars. How can we work together?

We’ll be away for a meeting between 12:15 and 1:30, but otherwise please stop by and say hello!

Vulcans need to learn to stay in their lane sometimes and it's not like it's a high holy day.

Happy First Contact Day! On April 5 2063 Zefram Cochrane will make his historic first warp flight, attracting the attention of a passing Vulcan ship. After the vessel lands, Cochrane leads a mob to slaughter the Vulcan invaders and seize their ship, starting the reign of the Terran Empire.

Okayama castle on a cloudy morning.

Tune In to the Midnight Heart Anime Announces Heroines' Cast, Main Staff Momoko Seto, Rumi Okubo, Sayumi Suzushiro, Miku Itō co-star in 2026 Gekkō anime

This has been my favorite manga of the past two years, glad it's gotten an anime adaptation!

Judge disses Star Trek icon Data’s poetry while ruling AI can’t author works Computer scientist won’t give up fight to copyright AI-made art after court loss.

The measure of an artificial man?

'Eerie' sky, charred bodies: 80 years since Tokyo's World War II firestorm Because of the atomic bombings and Japan's surrender a month later, the firebombing of Tokyo is often overlooked in history.

Five months before the U.S. dropped atomic weapons on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the nighttime Tokyo raid on March 9 and 10, 1945, was World War II's deadliest using conventional bombs.

How Anime Fans Stumbled upon a Mathematical Proof When a fan of a cult anime series wanted to watch its episodes in every possible order, they asked a question that had perplexed combinatorial mathematicians for years

I'm still not sitting through the Endless Eight again.

Magnetic tapes at risk without digitization, archive groups warn UNESCO has called for the digitization of audio and video recordings kept in academic and cultural institutions.

Magnetic tape recordings used in videotapes and cassette tapes, which were popular up to the 2000s, are at risk of being lost as the tapes deteriorate and replay equipment are no longer produced.

Happy National Cat Day (猫の日)! Lord Regent Kyubey approves of your celebration.